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Italy and Tito’s Yugoslavia in the Age of International Détente

Edited by Massimo Bucarelli, Luca Micheletta, Luciano Monzali, Luca Riccardi ...

Series Book 38 - Enjeux internationaux / International Issues
World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities, and diverging visions on international and domestic politics. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s, ... Read more

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World War II and East-West confrontation redefined borders between Italy and Yugoslavia, reshaped national frontiers and adversely affected political relations. As a result, major quarrels and disputes arose over territorial claims, demarcation of State boundaries, expulsion of national minorities, and diverging visions on international and domestic politics. It was only in the 1960s and 1970s,
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The Sack of Rome

Media + Money + Celebrity = Power = Silvio Berlusconi

by Alexander Stille ...

Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called "one of the best English-language writers on Italy" by the New York Times Book Review, and in The Sack of Rome he sets out to answer the question: What happens when vast wealth, a virtual media monopoly, and acute shamelessness combine in one man? Many are the crimes of Silvio Berlusconi, Stille argues, and, with deft analysis, he weaves them ... Read more

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Award-winning author Alexander Stille has been called "one of the best English-language writers on Italy" by the New York Times Book Review, and in The Sack of Rome he sets out to answer the question: What happens when vast wealth, a virtual media monopoly, and acute shamelessness combine in one man? Many are the crimes of Silvio Berlusconi, Stille argues, and, with deft analysis, he weaves them
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Bearslayers

The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists

by William D. Prigge ...

Series Book 71 - American University Studies
The 1959 purge of the Latvian national communists has long been cast in black-and-white terms: Russification and resistance; victimizers and victims. Conventional wisdom holds that Nikita Khrushchev was behind the purge. After all, he was the Soviet premier; he stopped in Riga just a few weeks before; even the leading victim of the purge, Eduards Berklavs, labeled Khrushchev the culprit. For the ... Read more

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The 1959 purge of the Latvian national communists has long been cast in black-and-white terms: Russification and resistance; victimizers and victims. Conventional wisdom holds that Nikita Khrushchev was behind the purge. After all, he was the Soviet premier; he stopped in Riga just a few weeks before; even the leading victim of the purge, Eduards Berklavs, labeled Khrushchev the culprit. For the
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Probing the Past

Festschrift in Honor of Leo Schelbert

Edited by Wendy Everham, Virginia Schelbert ...

This Festschrift acknowledges the scholarly work of Leo Schelbert and his mentorship of graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago where for 33 years he taught American history. Professor Schelbert has specialized in the story of European migrations and especially of immigration to the United States. His courses offered not only pertinent data, but they ... Read more

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This Festschrift acknowledges the scholarly work of Leo Schelbert and his mentorship of graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago where for 33 years he taught American history. Professor Schelbert has specialized in the story of European migrations and especially of immigration to the United States. His courses offered not only pertinent data, but they
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ICP and the political crisis in Poland

by Francesco Bonicelli Verrina ...

The essay investigates the controversial relations between the Italian communist party, the Italian left, the Polish communist reformers, trade unions, Church, human rights activists and Solidarity, during the turbulent Polish political crisis of 1980-82, and their consequences, through unpublished archives and the articles of that time, analyzing the influence of Berlinguer and Eurocommunism on ... Read more

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The essay investigates the controversial relations between the Italian communist party, the Italian left, the Polish communist reformers, trade unions, Church, human rights activists and Solidarity, during the turbulent Polish political crisis of 1980-82, and their consequences, through unpublished archives and the articles of that time, analyzing the influence of Berlinguer and Eurocommunism on
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Good Italy, Bad Italy

Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future

by Bill Emmott ...

Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is viewed as a major threat to the future of the Euro, indeed to the European Union as a whole. Italy's political system is shorn of credibility as it struggles to deal with huge public debts and anemic levels of economic growth. ... Read more

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Not long ago Italy was Europe's highly touted emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is viewed as a major threat to the future of the Euro, indeed to the European Union as a whole. Italy's political system is shorn of credibility as it struggles to deal with huge public debts and anemic levels of economic growth.
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Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio

Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands

by Benjamin Esswein ...

Series Book 72 - Studies in Modern European History
Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio: Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands provides a critical study of Lutheran reformers in Krain, formerly a province along what is now the Croatian/Slovenian border, and acts as a case study for the rest of the Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands. Focus is given to the Austrian Habsburgs, benefactors to the reformers, who sought to adopt Johannes Brenz’ ... Read more

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Truber, Ungnad & Vergerio: Territorial Churches in the Habsburg/Ottoman Borderlands provides a critical study of Lutheran reformers in Krain, formerly a province along what is now the Croatian/Slovenian border, and acts as a case study for the rest of the Habsburg-Ottoman borderlands. Focus is given to the Austrian Habsburgs, benefactors to the reformers, who sought to adopt Johannes Brenz’
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Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

by Anna Wolff-Poweska, Adam Leszczyński ...

Series Book 16 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of ... Read more

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This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of
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Ideologies and Forms of Leisure and Recreation in Victorian Manchester

by Beata Kiersnowska ...

Series Book 7 - Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
This book analyses certain ideologies which governed the middle class’ hegemonic approach to leisure in Victorian Manchester. The study presents different forms of leisure, recreation and entertainment in the city. The author also examines the reasons for the support and financial involvement of Manchester bourgeoisie and its municipal authorities in their development. The analysis covers a wide ... Read more

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This book analyses certain ideologies which governed the middle class’ hegemonic approach to leisure in Victorian Manchester. The study presents different forms of leisure, recreation and entertainment in the city. The author also examines the reasons for the support and financial involvement of Manchester bourgeoisie and its municipal authorities in their development. The analysis covers a wide
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The Art of War

Edited by Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Barbara McCloskey ...

Series Book 5 - German Visual Culture
War and trauma are fundamental human experiences and central to German history, especially in the twentieth century. This volume considers the multivalent aspects of art that responds to war, beginning with art conceived in response to the First World War and examining art and photography in the wake of the Holocaust and more recent conflicts. ... Read more

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War and trauma are fundamental human experiences and central to German history, especially in the twentieth century. This volume considers the multivalent aspects of art that responds to war, beginning with art conceived in response to the First World War and examining art and photography in the wake of the Holocaust and more recent conflicts.
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Renaissance Craftsmen and Humanistic Scholars

Circulation of Knowledge between Portugal and Germany

Edited by Thomas Horst, Marília dos Santos Lopes, Henrique Leitão ...

Series Book 10 - passagem
The study of the relations between Portugal and the German-speaking countries in the 15th and 16th centuries is an intriguing topic that has attracted the interest of scholars for some decades. In recent years evidence accumulated has shown that there was still much to be known and even some large areas were still unexplored. In order to better grasp the nature of what was a complex historical ... Read more

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The study of the relations between Portugal and the German-speaking countries in the 15th and 16th centuries is an intriguing topic that has attracted the interest of scholars for some decades. In recent years evidence accumulated has shown that there was still much to be known and even some large areas were still unexplored. In order to better grasp the nature of what was a complex historical
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The Modern Athens

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